It would be funny if lulzsec was a CIA op

Probably lulzsec is CIA themselves put by the government to find an excuse to censor internet. I expect China internet version 2 in a few decades minus the porn censorship.

the whole lulzsec thing makes me wonder. lets be honest the whole 'did it for the lulz' stuff died with chanology bullshit that the CIA likes to believe is still out there. I'm part of 'chan culture' in that I go to the IRCs and stuff of so many image and textboards and I've not seen or heard anyone mention it or even seem remotely interested.

I would imagine no hacker with any sense wants to get involved with any anon-based hacking group because many of them have idiot 'legion' members who deface webpages and get everyone busted.

I wouldn't be so sure about the CIA catching hackers though, both the FBI and the CIA shit their pants whenever hackers start picking on bigger targets (which seems to happen every 7 years or so) and end up busting some DDoSing kids to help assure the public that everything is okay and that they are catching these 'terrorists', when in reality the good hackers NEVER get caught.

the biggest mystery is how this ties in with wikileaks, many of the talented hackers who were owning the shit out of all the big white-hat (ethical) security firms went quiet a few years ago, then about a year on and wikileaks starts blowing up and getting hold of all kinds of crazy information, since then those anti-whitehat groups have been dead silent.